I joined in August , right after Wikimania Haifa, which a good friend suggested I attend. I was so inspired by what I heard about GLAM and education outreach projects that were happening around the world, that I felt I had to contribute and become part of it. I learned to edit Wikipedia quite quickly sounds a bit trivial, but I had a lot of help at the beginning — seriously, a lot! As part of my wiki-efforts, lecturing about Wikipedia and Wikimedia, as well as leading editing workshops became something I do almost on a weekly basis.
Let the students become active contributors to the community by writing medical-related content in Wikipedia as part of their studies. It will benefit both them and the general public. It was one of those things that one throws into the air, thinking it will be like planting a seed, an idea that may or may not blossom to actions sometime the far future, something often done when talking to GLAMs, educational institutions, and governmental bodies.
I did not expect them to take me up on my word; but to my surprise, they really liked the idea and asked me to act upon it, sooner rather than later. I was asked to quickly submit a full syllabus, so the Academic Committee could deliberate and decide if this is something that the Sackler School of Medicine would like to pursue.
Sure, we already had some experience teaching how to edit Wikipedia and various ongoing collaborations with academic and educational institutions, usually in the shape of writing a Wikipedia article as an academic chore.
But nowhere was there an academic course completely devoted to editing Wikipedia that gives students academic credit. Simply put, it was treading into uncharted territory. The pressure was on, not to mention that given such an opportunity, there was a feeling of responsibility to create a syllabus that could be easily adapted to other faculties, in case it all went well.
So, after doing some research, a lot of thinking, getting some help from good friends and colleagues and relying on my experience in curriculum development, teaching, and studying methods, I finalized a syllabus for teaching Wikipedia to Med students for a full semester.
The syllabus included a brief on the course, its learning objectives, grade breakdown and an outline of the 14 sessions. In general, the course was divided into three main parts: three introductory sessions, eight core sessions each dedicated to a different aspect of editing , and three final sessions dedicated to peer review and presentations.
The idea was that most of the work should be done during the semester, so by the time the semester ended the students would have already completed most of their tasks. Not only would the student editors not have to deal with writing articles during exam period, but it also gave us enough time to check their work and grade it before the next semester began.
Two more principles guided me when thinking about the course; one based on my professional experience in medical education and the other on my experience teaching the wiki language to others. We strove for interactive sessions and created online exercises to accompany most of the core sessions. Tightening grip on power, Sudanese general taps himself to head governing body. Study finds Mediterranean Sea creatures fleeing to deeper, cooler waters to live.
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For example, in Britain in , a pro-Israel editor was accused of targeting critics of Israel and others in the British far-left in a case that was amplified by Russian media. These allegations went so far as to claim that the Wikipedia editor was a front for the British defense establishment if not the CIA. There were no less than 10 attempts to delete the analogy article during its first four years of life.
By , after eight additional attempts to have the article deleted by editors considered part of or close to the pro-Israel contingent on Wikipedia were thwarted, another debate was held. Edit wars on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have had a fundamental influence on how Wikipedia addresses contentious issues; for example, the practice of locking articles to public editing and permitting only editors with a username and certain level of Wikipedia experience to contribute.
The result has been the emergence of two ideological camps, so-called pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian editors, who have been locked in what some describe as an editorial stalemate. In the past, such claims were easily relegated to other articles; for example, those about areas A, B and C in the West Bank, which were set up by the Oslo Accords and offered Israel and the Palestinian Authority different levels of control of different parts of the West Bank.
The opening highlights how the increasingly permanent status of the areas once considered under temporary Israeli control serves as the justification for a new article. Any discussion of the topic is bound to be messy.
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